Baron Vaughn discusses his new Funny or Die web series Call & Response. Then, Vaughn gets quizzed about Black playwrights and plays a game inspired by his SyFy Wire show The Great Debate.
Steve Carell stars as a Democratic strategist running for mayor of a small Midwestern town in a film that feels exasperatingly out of step with the present moment.
Jones lost countless friends to the AIDS epidemic. He became an activist after Harvey Milk's assassination: "Meeting Harvey, seeing his death, it fixed my course." Originally broadcast Nov. 29, 2016.
Meaker wrote the lesbian pulp novel Spring Fire in 1952, and was surprised when it sold 1.5 million copies. She went on to write other lesbian-themed books under pen names. Originally broadcast 2003.
Comedian Patton Oswalt helped finish his late wife Michelle McNamara's true-crime book about the Golden State Killer, I'll Be Gone in the Dark. Now, it's being adapted into a six-part series for HBO.
The white actors will no longer play characters on Big Mouth and Central Park. Instead, they ask that Black voice actors be cast. Nick Kroll, co-creator of Big Mouth, apologized and agrees.
Kehinde Wiley created this statue — an African American rider sitting valiantly atop a horse — in response to the line of Confederate statues lining Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va.
In a new book, Kim Wehle explains voting basics. She tells NPR, "if we don't go to the polls to protect democracy itself, it could fail. And I believe that's what's on the ballot in November."